1/9 News | Industry Projects | Training | Events | Contact News | Industry Projects | Training | Events | Contact GAMI Newsletter Preface Dear partners and friends, 2017 has been a very eventful year. Many companies have successfully implemented strategies and concepts for the digitalization of their plants and supply chains. GAMI extended its unique Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center with additional showcases and smart training hardware. Furthermore, we supported many companies in developing their individual roadmap towards a smart factory. It could be seen, that a Sino-German cooperation is essential to meet future challenges and successfully master the transition to Industry 4.0. Especially with our university background we provide our partners with advanced methods and concepts to reach operational excellence and create a long-term and sustainable benefit. Besides our industrial partners we serve Sino-German research and innovation programs in the context of Smart Manufacturing. In this context our Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center serves not only as a high-level training facility but also as an incubator for Sino-German entrepreneurship. With our regular newsletter, we would like to keep you informed about our current industry projects, training services as well as our events. I hope you enjoy reading and discovering something new in this issue. Sincerely, Tobias Arndt News wbk was honored as one of the 100 for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg Production-technological laboratory at wbk Institute of Production Science at KIT was honored as one of the “100 Places for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg” wbk was honored as one of the 100 for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg (Source: wbk)
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GAMI Newsletter
Preface
Dear partners and friends,
2017 has been a very eventful year. Many companies have successfully implemented strategies and concepts for the
digitalization of their plants and supply chains. GAMI extended its unique Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center
with additional showcases and smart training hardware. Furthermore, we supported many companies in developing their
individual roadmap towards a smart factory. It could be seen, that a Sino-German cooperation is essential to meet future
challenges and successfully master the transition to Industry 4.0.
Especially with our university background we provide our partners with advanced methods and concepts to reach operational
excellence and create a long-term and sustainable benefit. Besides our industrial partners we serve Sino-German research
and innovation programs in the context of Smart Manufacturing. In this context our Industry 4.0 Demonstration and
Innovation Center serves not only as a high-level training facility but also as an incubator for Sino-German entrepreneurship.
With our regular newsletter, we would like to keep you informed about our current industry projects, training services as well
as our events. I hope you enjoy reading and discovering something new in this issue.
Sincerely,
Tobias Arndt
News
wbk was honored as one of the 100 for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg
Production-technological laboratory at wbk Institute of Production Science at KIT was honored as one of the “100 Places
for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg”
wbk was honored as one of the 100 for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg (Source: wbk)
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2017 Technical Seminar Week - Global Production & Distribution Systems
From 4th to 15th September 2017, the ‘Technical Seminar Week’ jointly held by KIT HECTOR School of Engineering and
Management and GAMI took place in Suzhou and Shanghai. The HECTOR School, Technology Business School of the KIT,
provides its professional participants with the unique opportunity to gain state-of-the-art know-how in Global Production &
Distribution Systems as well as smart automation solutions directly on-site in China.
The seminar week was composed of a compact knowledge transfer in lectures, case studies as well as company tours.
Prof. Juergen Fleischer and Dr. Benjamin Haefner from KIT, Mr. Tobias Arndt, General Manager of GAMI, and Mr. Yang
Shun, Dean of KIT China Branch, delivered the lectures, which were complemented by tours to leading companies and
research centers in Suzhou and Shanghai, such as Bosch, MTU, HTS and Zeiss. By providing a state-of-the-art knowledge
transfer on-site, the participants used this platform to communicate with professionals and executives working in China.
Global players have continually extended their production sites in China. Therefore, the demand for engineers with highly
developed technological know-how and the ability to meet the different on-site requirements is rapidly growing. Applicable
knowledge to master these challenges is delivered during this two-weeks course.
We have already scheduled the next technical seminar week for professionals with more than three years of working
experience for September 2018.
For more information related to our services or other inquiries, please contact Mr. Yang Shun directly ([email protected])
or visit our website www.silu.asia.
On site impressions (Source: GAMI)
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Industry 4.0 is one of the major trends in the manufacturing industry. “Many approaches are still rather theoretical and less
pragmatic,” says Gisela Lanza, professor at the wbk Institute for Production Technology at KIT. In order to make the most
diverse Industry 4.0 applications directly visible and approachable, wbk has set up a production-technological laboratory: At
numerous test bays and plants that deal with both manufacturing and assembly, the scientists develop appropriate solutions
under industry-related conditions.
In the learning factory "Global Production", wbk demonstrates a wide variety of assembly applications and makes them
tangible in game rounds. The factory consists of a real industrial assembly line for electric motors, equipped with Industry
4.0 elements: Depending on requirements, the assembly steps can be designed manually or automatically, there is a
decentralized safety and control system and a station for human-robot collaboration. The digital shop floor displays recorded
data and information directly and analyzes them.
Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg has named the wbk production-technological laboratory as one of the 100 locations
for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg. Above all, the jury emphasized the learning factory: As the worldwide only one with
this thematic focus, it deals with challenges that characterize production on global networks, such as how individual locations
differ in terms of cost structure, degree of automation or employee qualification.
For more information related to our collaboration with wbk, please contact Tobias Arndt directly ([email protected]) or
visit our website www.silu.asia.
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Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing: New cooperation with SUDA
The digital transition is in full swing and affects not only society but also economies world-wide. New, intelligent technologies
and applications are changing the structure and processes of production, and companies must react to this.
Therefore, KIT China Branch has launched a cooperation with Soochow University (SUDA): Together with the Xiangcheng
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Equipment (XIRIE) of SUDA a close collaboration especially in the fields of robotics and
intelligent manufacturing shall be established. In this, XIRIE will integrate an industrial robot as well as an automated guided
vehicle in the Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center in Suzhou. Here, GAMI will do research on how to integrate
AGVs in global and intelligent production systems. Through the exchange of technology, knowledge and experts, the
partners want to conduct projects that address the challenges of the digital transition in Germany and China.
For more information related to our services or other inquiries, please contact Tobias Arndt directly ([email protected])
or visit our website www.silu.asia.
Meeting and workshop visit (Source: GAMI)
Signing ceremony (Source: GAMI)
Sustain Project Come Together Meeting on Oct13th, 2017
With the strong support of our project partner Shuangliang Corp, GAMI, as the project conductor, held the yearly SUSTAIN
meeting together with our partners Siemens and Wuerth to review the project performance. After Mr. Tobias Arndt, General
Manager of GAMI introduced the background and the target of the project, Dr. Siegfried Beichter, Wuerth Group Quality
Management Head, cited some application cases in his keynote speech and stressed that the best adapted supply chain
will win in the new retail business. Ms. Cai Qiying, Chief Procurement Officer of Siemens Greater China, emphasized the
importance of intellectualization and digitalization and showed future development trends. She also mentioned, that for
Siemens sustainability means acting responsibly on behalf of future generations to achieve economic, environmental and
social progress.
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After the achievement reports by representatives from Siemens, Wuerth and Shuangliang, we also visited Shuangliang Air
Cooler workshop to see the onsite 5S improvement made during SUSTAIN project.
During the highly successful meeting the improvements of all 20 partners in the SUSTAIN project were demonstrated, which
were achieved due to the intense collaboration with the GAMI team. We delivered individual strategies and smart solutions
in production and supply chain management in order to create a long-term and sustainable benefit for our project partners.
For further questions regarding our project approach and success please contact Tobias Arndt ([email protected]) or
visit our website www.silu.asia.
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Integration of NEW Technology and Equipment - Innovation Centre Upgrade
Establishing a continuous improvement process (CIP) is one of the well-known methods in lean production, which aims at
the never-ending optimization of production systems. This counts for the era of Industry 4.0 as well. That’s why GAMI team
is so engaged to update our Industry 4.0 demonstration and innovation center in Suzhou. Together with our partner Wuerth,
we recently installed two pilot applications (iBox and ORSYmat), which increase the intelligence in company internal as well
as external supply chain management.
iBox belongs to the C-part management system of Wuerth and is based on the principle of the Kanban system. The rolling
two-bin system ensures, that C-Parts are provided "just-in-time" directly at the point of use. Each bin is equipped with RFID
tags, so that when putting an empty bin into iBox, this movement is captured and documented automatically. This way,
information about the status of Kanban system is accessible at any time and an instant replenishment can be ensured by
the supplier. Furthermore, the data can be used to schedule all C-Parts close to the point of use, to optimize stock levels
and monitor the consumption of a warehouse regularly. For a customer, it’s also possible to access all the data saved on a
server and get further support regarding a standardized supply chain management of C-Parts.
The ORSYmat is particularly suitable for managing consumables such as personal protective equipment, tools or machines
with irregular, unpredictable requirements. They play a significant role in a company's cost and efficiency balance sheet. It
is not so much the cost of the materials that makes an impact, but rather their procurement or a shortage of operating
supplies. An ORSYmat can be customized to be suitable to individual requirements - from 8 to 48 boxes per layer, where
up to 384 different products can be stored. That means that small and medium sized products are especially suitable for the
distribution through this variation of vending machine. The boxes provide a secure storage of the products, whereby it is
possible to fill them with a single article, regardless of the packaging unit. The consumer can log onto the machine using his
personal identification card and either remove or rent a product. This information is stored centrally on a server, so that the
consumption of specific products or persons can be analyzed in detail.
The Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center is a platform for integrating advanced technology and applications
related to Industry 4.0. We are continuously working with our partners to upgrade both software and hardware in order to
support our visitors in getting a deeper insight into Industry 4.0.
For more information related to the Industry 4.0 Demonstration and Innovation Center, please contact Tobias Arndt directly